Shea Block 33 Pinot Noir (Willamette Valley)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Pinot Noir

País

United States

Região

Willamette Valley · Willamette Valley

Denominação

Willamette Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201494 pts

  One of several limited-block selections, this particular cuvée is 100% Pommard clone. The lush fruit core contains a generous mix of flavors—candied orange peel, candied ginger and chocolate cherries. The tannins have a breakfast tea character, and everything is smoothly melded…

• 201393 pts

  Block 23 is all Pommard clone. At first the drying, tea-flavored tannins push the fruit down, but over many hours the wine expands with generous flavors of cherry fruit leather, candied orange peel, and polished tannins.

• 201292 pts

  From this particular block all the vines are the Pommard clone, which keeps it distinctive from the other Shea cuvées. Smooth, silky, slightly smoky and showing a supple mouthfeel, this mixes brambly berry, nougat and caramel notes, with a finishing flourish of toasted hazelnuts.

• 201094 pts

  Here's a rich, full-bodied wine that rolls from the first floral sniff into a wellspring of deep, briary, berry-cherry fruit. Peppery spices and dried Mediterranean herbs meld on an endlessly fascinating finish that promises decades of development ahead.